Disinfo: Ukrainian TV Channel broadcasting in Belarus is part of Ukraine’s information war against Russia

Summary

Ukrainian UATV channel broadcasting in Belarus will empower extremist elements and contribute to polarization of Belarusian society. This is part of Kyiv’s strategy to develop an information war against Russia via the Belarusian media space and with the assistance of Ukrainian special bodies.

Disproof

No proof given to support these claims.

This claim echoes the pro-Kremlin narrative about anti-Russian propaganda spread by Ukrainian media, at times with Western support. See earlier examples here and here.

The underlying message of Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich works was that Soviet people had only egoistic aims and that nothing heroic happened in the Soviet history. The 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to her because of the Swedes’ envy of the Russian victory in the Great Northern War’s battle of Poltava.

January 28, 2019

Disproof

No evidence given. This allegation is one of many others which aim to discredit the writers known for their critical views on Soviet or Kremlin policies.

The process of nomination and selection of Nobel Prize in Literature laureates is described in detail here.

Civil society activists, funded by US community connections program for Belarus have become an effective tool for creating a ‘fifth column’. This and similar exchange programs will enable the US to organize Ukraine-like events in Belarus.

The Billion Euro Rail Baltica Project is West’s way of preparing a war with Russia by 2026. The talk about the normal-gauge railroad’s meaning as a necessary infrastructure project for transportations of goods and passengers is just a pretext. The real object of the railroad is to transport tanks faster to the Russian border. It has never been a secret for us that Rail Baltica – first and foremost is a project on military infrastructure.

January 28, 2019

Disproof

A conspiracy theory without any evidence.

The Rail Baltica Project aims at creating a unified high-speed normal gauge railroad that integrates the railroad networks of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with the networks of the countries to the south of the Baltic Sea. The wide gauge railroad infrastructure, built in the times of the Russian Empire, does not fill the needs of the current flow of goods and passengers.

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